Swing-strop.



Patentad Bec. I7, IQOL J. H. TURKEY. l

SWING STRUP.

(Application led Nov. 19, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 688,978, dated December 1'7, 1901.

Application filed November 19, 1900. Serial No. 36,979. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, t may concern:

BeitknownthatLJosEPH R.Tonnnv,acit zen of the United States, residing at VVorcester, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts,haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Swing Strops, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to razor-strops, and particularly to that class known as swingstrops, which are characterized by flexible stropping members as distinguished from strops in which the stropping surfaces are mounted on rigid backs. This type of swingstrop is used extensively in barber-shops and otherwise, and to provide a desirable number of shopping-surfaces ot different characters or different degrees of fineness as also to prolong the life of the strop it is desirable to provide two or more strop members of different kinds and each of which is inished ou both sides, so that all ofthe stropping-surfaces may be brought into use. These swing-strops are in practice suspended from a hook or equivalent support which enables the user to stretch them out in position for use, and it is desirable that each iiexible member of a swingstrop,comprisingtwoor more members,should be so mounted that it may readily be turned independently of the other member or meinbers to bring either side thereot` into use without removing the strop from its supporting hook or nail, and it is also desirable that the strop as a whole, comprising the several members, should be capable of being turned at times to bring either of the outside surfaces into position for use.

To this end myimproved swing-strop comprises a swivel-support which is to be engaged with a supporting hook or nail and with which cach of the frames to which the several strop members are attached have in turn an independent swivel connection, so that either of the strop members may be turned upon its independent swivel connection or so that the strop as a whole may be turned on the swivelsupport by which it is attached to the supporting hook or nail.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of my improved two-member swing-strop, and Fig. 2 a sectional view of the same on a larger scale and partly broken away.

Referring to the drawings, 3 denotes an eye forengagement with a hook or nail by which the strop is to be supported, said eye being swiveled toa ring Ll, which serves to support eyes 5 5,havingswivel connections with frames 6 6, to which the flexible strop members 7 8 are suitably secured as by being provided at their upper ends with loops 9. One of the strop members will preferably be of woven fabric finished in the ordinary manner by a suitable dressing and the other of said strop members will preferably be a strip ot leather with one of its faces provided with suitable sharpening dressing, while the other face may or may not be thus finished. lach of the flexible strop members 7 8 will preferably be provided with a handle portion 10. As each of the strop members 7 8 has an independent swivel connection with the ring 4, it will be obvious that these strop members maybe independently turned to bring either of its stropping-surfaces into use without requiring the strop as a whole to be removed from its support, and it will also be obvious that owing to the fact that the ring 4 has a swivel connection with the supporting-eye 3 both of the strop members maybe turned together to bring either of the outside surfaces ot said stropping members into use, if desired. This yindependent swivel connection of each of the stropping members or strips with the common support for both members obviates the necessity which has existed in some two-member swing-strops heretofore in use of removing the strop as a whole from its supporting-hook or of turning a stropping member by passing it bodily through its supporting-frame,as has been required with some other two-member swing-strops heretofore in use, the present invention being simpler and much more convenient in use than are the prior constructions referred to.

I do not wish to be understood as limiting my invention to a swing-strop having two stropping members only, as it is obvious that more than two v[iexible strop members, each having an independent swivel connection with a swiveled support, may be employed, if desired, and it will also be obvious that the details of my invention may be varied some- IOO what Without departing from the essence pendently of the other member or members, thereof. and whereby also all of the said strop mem- Having thus described my invention, I bers may be turned together on the said 15 claim and desire to secure by Letters Patswivel-support to bring either of the outer 5 entstropping-surfaces of two of the said strop A swing-strop comprising a swivel-support members into use. and aplurality of flexible strop members each In testimony whereof I ax my signature having stropping-surfaces on both sides, and in presence of two witnesses.

each of which strop members has an independ- JOSEPH R. TORREY. x0 ent swivel connection with said sWivel-sup- Witnesses:

port,so that each of said strop members may be CHARLES T. HALE,

readily turned on its swivel connection inde- E. H. H. WILSON. 

